Thursday, November 08, 2012

Warmist Tina Rosenberg makes a tremendously unconvincing case for CO2 hoax action: "even the Koch brothers are no match for Mother Nature...we could spend hundreds of billions on cutting carbon emissions and end up getting nothing for it in terms of reducing climate change"

the right wing has completely controlled the framing of the climate change debate.

But even the Koch brothers are no match for Mother Nature...There is, of course, no simple mathematical trade-off between the cost of action and the cost of inaction: a dollar spent to reduce greenhouse gas emissions does not save us a dollar in disaster averted. Natural disasters have been around a lot longer than man-made carbon emissions, and the destruction from extreme weather we are seeing today is due only in part to climate change. (How large a part? Depends on whom you ask.) It might be too late — we could spend hundreds of billions on cutting carbon emissions and end up getting nothing for it in terms of reducing climate change.